High-Def Digest: The Bonus ViewJohnny Depp Archives - High-Def Digest: The Bonus View https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/tag/johnny-depp/ A High-Def Digest Blog Wed, 13 May 2020 15:26:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 Weekend Roundtable: From Indie to Payday https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/roundtable-indie-to-payday/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/roundtable-indie-to-payday/#comments Fri, 08 Mar 2019 18:00:03 +0000 Josh Zyber https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=96895 After her Oscar win for Room, Brie Larson jumped right into the gargantuan Kong: Skull Island and is now headlining a mega-budget Marvel superhero flick. Our Roundtable this week looks at other actors who’ve made the leap from indie acclaim to blockbuster stardom. David Krauss Though opportunities for black actresses are growing (it’s about frickin’...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/roundtable-actors-worn-out-their-welcome/feed/ 10 Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald Review – Guilty as Charmed https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/fantastic-beasts-crimes-of-grindelwald-movie-review/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/fantastic-beasts-crimes-of-grindelwald-movie-review/#comments Fri, 16 Nov 2018 13:00:06 +0000 Deirdre Crimmins https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=94693 Ravenous Harry Potter fans will likely feast in the often visually stunning Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, as it’s made just for them. The rest of us casual fans or disinterested parties will either be bored or patient while we wait for the credits to eventually roll. Watching this Fantastic Beasts, the second in...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/fantastic-beasts-crimes-of-grindelwald-movie-review/feed/ 1 ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ (2017) Review: Murder Most Middlebrow https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/murder-on-the-orient-express-2017-movie-review/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/murder-on-the-orient-express-2017-movie-review/#comments Thu, 09 Nov 2017 20:00:41 +0000 Philip Brown https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=88266 In the grand scheme of movies that needed to exist in 2017, ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ ranks somewhere near the bottom of the list. There have been a variety of adaptations of this Agatha Christie whodunnit over the years and Kenneth Branagh’s new version doesn’t add much beyond modern movie spectacle. While it’s a...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/pirates-of-the-caribbean-dead-men-tell-no-tales-movie-review/feed/ 3 ‘Alice Through the Looking Glass’ Review: Mildly Improved Mediocrity https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/alice-through-the-looking-glass-2016-movie-review/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/alice-through-the-looking-glass-2016-movie-review/#comments Thu, 26 May 2016 19:00:33 +0000 Philip Brown http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=77990 ‘Alice Through the Looking Glass’ is a sequel that actually improves on its predecessor. However, the last movie was pretty bad despite the billion dollars it made at the box office suggesting otherwise. So, the improvement means that this one is merely forgettably mediocre rather than downright crappy. Not that it matters. All anyone seemed...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/worst-of-film-2015/feed/ 38 TIFF Journal: ‘Black Mass’ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/tiff-black-mass-movie-review/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/tiff-black-mass-movie-review/#respond Tue, 15 Sep 2015 19:00:47 +0000 Philip Brown http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=72629 The tale of Boston crime lord James “Whitey” Bulger is so good that it’s surprising it took this long for someone to make a movie out of it… or at least an official bio-pic anyway. Martin Scorsese flavored his ‘Infernal Affairs’ remake ‘The Departed’ with Whitey’s legend and Joe Berlinger made a pretty fantastic documentary...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/tiff-black-mass-movie-review/feed/ 0 The Trailer Park: Mars Needs Damons https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/movie-trailers-martian-black-mass-bridge-of-spies/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/movie-trailers-martian-black-mass-bridge-of-spies/#comments Wed, 10 Jun 2015 16:00:13 +0000 M. Enois Duarte http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=70582 Some of the best known and respected actors are starring in roles that demand pretty big shoes this year. In the past, they’ve proven themselves adequately and, for the most part, to the satisfaction of the box office. Aside from one long-time favorite of many, however, the question remains whether they will satisfy moviegoers later...

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]]> https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/mortdecai-review/feed/ 5 Weekend Movies: Rough Seas Ahead https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/weekend-movies-jan-23-2015/ https://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/weekend-movies-jan-23-2015/#respond Fri, 23 Jan 2015 17:00:04 +0000 Luke Hickman http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/?p=67718 This weekend offers three new wide releases that each have Rotten Tomatoes scores of less than 15%. That’s a perfect sign that this is a good time to catch up on Oscar contenders. Disney may have shot down all of George Lucas’ ideas for ‘Star Wars: Episode VII’, but the studio didn’t reject distributing his...

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